22-Sep-15: MRB Weekly Update

Happy
Tuesday! What a great start to our
competitive season with a second place score in Group 5 Open of 72.350. Way to go RamBand!!!! We have posted our score and caption on the
schedule under Maloney on www.ramband.com.
We will continue to do that throughout
the season. Thank you to all of the
parents who helped chaperone, move equipment and cheer on the band!! RamPride!!

Important
Information and Dates:

We
will be kicking off our Annual Lyman Orchards Pie Sale Fundraiser this
week. The order forms will be in the students‘ band mailbox by Thursday. Sales will run until October 13th for delivery
before Thanksgiving. We will provide
delivery dates and times in a later update.

We
will have a combined BPA Member meeting and Music in Motion Meeting from
7-8:45pm on Thursday October 1 and we should be able to use the auditorium.
We will handle all BPA business in the
first hour of the meeting and then cover MiM actions and updates.

For
Band Parents who have partially paid for your 2015 membership dues, the
balance is due by the 30th of September. Please place your check in the
Forms Drop Box. For those who have not elected become a member of the Big
Red Machine, we encourage you to join our organization in support of all BPA
activities benefitting you and your Band Student for this season.

We’ve
settled into a routine with Food Service orders and payments.
Thank you for adjusting to this new and improved way of doing business to
feed our band, and please give Pam Gomez a thank you for a job well done!
Remember to have your Food Orders completed on-line by Thursday.
Many have already taken advantage of the Advance Pay option we have set
up. Thank you to all of you who are getting your payments into the Forms
Drop Box as required by Thursday evening. Visit ramband.com early to get
your orders in for this week.

The
Quartermaster would like to remind band members to have their uniform
pants, black socks, marching shoes, and black t-shirts ready for our
performances this coming Friday and Saturday! They all looked great at
Maloney! Reminder: Please be gentle with the uniforms… they are almost as
old as I am!

The
New Milford Competition information and schedule is up - please visit to
see what is on deck for Saturday’s competition. We had a great showing at
Maloney. Please come out to New Milford dressed in red to cheer on our
band! And bring the noise makers. ☺

The
Webmaster has posted Parent Volunteer Sign Ups for competitions using
Sign-Up Genius links – now through Southington October 14th. Please visit
the Parent Volunteer Sign Up page – sign up early – sign up often! If you
have not seen it yet, view the video email from our Head Chaperone
regarding how we do business during and at the completion of competition
outings. We need help with pit crew and
props. Even if you do not ride with the
band, we could use the help getting the props for the Guard onto the field. Come on down right before our band steps-off
and help us set up the field.

Music
in Motion Sponsors / Ad sales are well underway and we appreciate the support. The band members stepped up and we have
already close to 50 businesses being approached. I will send out a separate email with the list
of remaining businesses to approach and the form. Please feel free to
place an ad yourself or take a form to one of the businesses on the list. This can be a big dollar item for our total
revenue for Music in Motion. Thank you for
the support!

Don’t
be shy – we need everyone to pitch in, whether for pre-show prep work, Sales
and Ticketing, Friday Set-Up, Saturday Set-Up, during the show and after the
show both on Saturday night and Sunday morning to clean up. It’s a lot of
fun too! We have constructed a work schedule such that you could work all
day if you want to, and we hope many of you will, but for those who can work
part of the day, we are offering shift work this year. We hope to see you
there!!

We
will also be posting a link to an Equipment Needed Sign Up. The BPA
does not own every accessory item necessary to put on the show.
Therefore, we would like to request that you consider loaning us the
items needed. There is an extensive list - if you can loan more than one
item that would be greatly appreciated. We
promise to return it.

Stay
tuned for:

1.Information on the band trip to Allentown
coming soon!

2.The MiM ad listing and form later this week

3.
All of the sign-ups for MiM will be posted by the end of this weekend